As I somehow ;) got mixed in this, let me answer on both lists.
<marketing-glasses: on> I think having a distributed model for the same thing LinkedIn does *would* be much better but LinkedIn currently has a few features that the social network we have now, (the one Oron described) does not have. Naturally there are other feature that our social networks have that an online service such as the one we are talking about does not have and possibly cannot have. + LinkedIn lets you search in 4 distance. Not only my contacts but I can see (to certain degree) information about the contacts of my contacts and their contacts... (e.g. I cannot see their e-mail) nor can I contact them directly. + When I am looking for a person at company X I don't have to ask all of my contacts if they know someone at that company. I can search the database and hope that the person I am looking for has joined the system. - On the other hand if I do ask Oron if he knows someone who could help me in marketing he might come up with much better ideas than what I could find from his contact list on LinkedIn. Oron, I hope your e-mail was not intended for someone like me to run a marketing spiel for LI, was it ?:-0) Gabor Resident Perl Monger ps. Interestingly another member of linux-il told me this is spam when I invited him to join (which might be indeed the case :) and then a few weeks later I got an invitation from him. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
